Bell (Clive) 2 Autograph Letters signed "Clive" to Roger Senhouse, 4pp. & 1 envelope, 8vo, Charleston, Firle, Sussex, 16th June 1953 & 18th October 1954, in reply to a proof of a book he has written entitled The Bloomsbury Group, "What must be must be - or, as the Duke of Wellington put it, 'publish and be damned'. In eloquent lectures I have informed the American and French public that there never was such a thing as 'Bloomsbury', let alone a 'philosophic and artistic background.' Between 1904 and 1914 a number of Cambridge friends saw a great deal of each other and of the two Miss Stephens [Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf] who lived in Bloomsbury. After the war they continued to see each other, and brought with them new friends some of whom had been at Oxford, and some at no University at all. They thought and felt differently on most questions; they differed often violently -, in ideas, tastes and points of view. But they liked each other. That was all they had in common... Lytton [Strachey], Maynard [Keynes] and I were all much influenced by G.E. Moore's Principia Ethica. But some of those so-called Bloomsbury friends had never read Moore, and others were strongly opposed to his ideas"; and 3 others including a postcard from Douglas Cooper enquiring about the book and a BBC radio transcript of a programme on The Bloomsbury Group in French, folds, 2 letters clipped together at head, v.s., v.d. (5)